Nicola's

14/12/2025

Good morning everyone, just want to say a huge thank you for all your support 😃 We have had over 208,000 views in the last 28 days and we are over the moon 🙌🙌
Let us know if you would like information posted about any particular women’s health issues and we will do this. We are here to provide education and information to help improve your physical, mental and emotional wellbeing 🙌🌸😃❤️ Have a great Sunday ☀️
We are off the Livingston Cricket Club to walk with the Wander Dogs and judge the best doggy outfit show 😃🐶❤️🙌🌸
All welcome if your free 😃
Starts at 10.30am

13/12/2025

💗 Supporting Families Through Life’s Challenges 💗

At Nicola’s, we believe in sharing and signposting to organisations that truly make a difference in people’s lives. 💕

We’d like to highlight Family Journeys, a fantastic Scottish organisation with a Bathgate base, that supports children, young people, and families through times of change, challenge, and difficulty. 🌱

Website link 👇👇
https://familyjourneys.scot/

Family Journeys offer compassionate, trauma-informed support that helps families:
✨ Build emotional resilience
✨ Strengthen relationships
✨ Feel heard, understood, and supported
✨ Navigate life transitions and difficult experiences

No one should have to face hard times alone, and Family Journeys do incredible work walking alongside families with care, kindness, and understanding.

👉 Find out more about their services here:
https://familyjourneys.scot/

Please take a moment to have a look, share their page, or pass it on to someone who might benefit. Supporting each other and amplifying good work matters. 💞

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Family Journeys supports children and families throughout their journey toward healthy, respectful, and nurturing relationships. We focus on supporting families in a safe and supportive space to rebuild relationships and create successful co-parenting arrangements.

13/12/2025

💖 Celebrating Our Incredible Volunteers 💖

The pic is me and 2 of my amazing volunteers 🙌🌸❤️ my wee mum and auntie ❤️❤️

At Nicola’s, everything we do is built on kindness, compassion, and the incredible people who give their time to support other women. Today, we want to shine a light on our amazing volunteer team 🌸

Our volunteers bring a wealth of experience, knowledge, care, and understanding, including:
⭐️ Mental Health Nurses
✨ General nurses
✨ Social Work Emergency Support
✨ A Psychologist
✨ A Perinatal Mental Health Nurse
✨ A Student Support Worker
⭐️ And lots of others with life experience, compassion and empathy
⭐️ Many of us are PVG certified
⭐️ Many of us are trained in Safeguarding
⭐️ Many have been trained in Mental Health First Aid
⭐️ Many of us have completed CPR & De-fib training
⭐️ We have an extensive list of resources available in West Lothian
⭐️ We can provide training and education on lots of mental and physical health topics.

🌸 June, our Founder is a Qualified Mental Health Nurse with over 37 years experience helping people with anxiety, low mood & stress.
She has completed the following training:
⭐️ Mental Health First Aid Trainer & Assessor
⭐️ Teaching in Further Education Qualification
⭐️ CBT for Menopause with British Menopause Society
⭐️ The Decider Skills - CBT Brief Interventions approved by the British Psychology Sociiety
⭐️ Trauma Informed Practice
⭐️ Breathwork Coach
⭐️ She also has experience supporting individuals during ADHD and autism assessment, diagnostic processes and providing CBT informed support.

Together, this wonderful team offers empathy, lived understanding, and professional insight — creating a safe, supportive space where women feel heard, believed, and valued.

We are so grateful for every conversation, every act of support, and every moment our volunteers give. You truly are the heart of Nicola’s 💕

Thank you for standing with us and for supporting women, always.

🌸 Women supporting women 🌸

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13/12/2025

If your free tomorrow we are going to join the Wander dog at Livingston Cricket Club🌸❤️🙌🐶

💗 Why Nicola’s supports the Wander Dogs 💗

At Nicola’s, we believe in second chances, compassion, and gentle support — and that’s exactly why we support the Wander Dogs.

Every dog who walks with the Wander Dogs is a rescued greyhound. These beautiful dogs have often experienced neglect, abandonment, or significant change, yet they show incredible resilience, trust, and quiet strength as they learn to feel safe again.

Their journey mirrors the experiences of many women we support — finding safety, rebuilding confidence, and healing at their own pace.

Walking alongside these rescued greyhounds:
🐾 Reduces isolation
🐾 Encourages gentle movement and mindfulness
🐾 Creates connection without pressure
🐾 Reminds us that healing doesn’t need words

By supporting the Wander Dogs, Nicola’s celebrates recovery, kindness, and the power of walking together — for rescued animals and for women alike.

Because everyone deserves care, dignity, and the chance to feel safe again. 💞


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13/12/2025

💗 Today at Nicola’s 💗

Today we welcomed 12 incredible women through our doors at Nicola’s.

Each one of you showed real courage just by walking in — and we want to say thank you 🙌❤️🌸

Being brave doesn’t always look loud or confident. Sometimes it’s simply taking that first step, even when it feels uncomfortable or scary. You did that today, and we’re so glad you did 🌸

June, the founder of Nicola’s and Team Lead for the Practice Mental Health Nurse Service gave an update on Nicola’s and spoke about what the Practice Mental Health Nurses do 🙌🌸❤️

You can book an appointment just phone up your Gp reception and ask for an appointment with the Practice Mental Health Nurse.

They:
• Listen and assess mental health needs
• Offer short-term, practical support and coping strategies
• Provide brief CBT-informed help and wellbeing advice
• Review mental health medication with the GP
• Signpost or refer to talking therapies and community supports

They are accessed through your GP practice and help people get the right support early, before problems escalate.

June also spoke the about other service who can provide support 🙌

13/12/2025

12/12/2025

Please SIGN & SHARE 🙏🌸❤️

Nicola’s Law: End Medical Misogyny in Women's Health Care in memory of Nicola

12/12/2025

🌸 Women’s Health Is More Than Periods 🌸

Women’s health isn’t just gynaecology.
It’s mental health, hormones, chronic pain, trauma, menopause, heart health, autoimmune conditions, and being believed when we say something isn’t right.

It’s:
✨ Endometriosis & PCOS
✨ Perimenopause & menopause
✨ Mental health & PMDD
✨ Chronic pain & fatigue
✨ Pregnancy, loss & postnatal care
✨ Neurodiversity in women
✨ Sexual health & consent
✨ Medical misogyny & delayed diagnosis

Women’s health is whole-body, whole-life, whole-person care — and women deserve to be listened to, respected, and supported at every stage of life.

At Nicola’s, we stand for women.
We believe women.
We support women.

💗 You matter. Always.

12/12/2025

🌸🌸 Nicola’s Law Petition 🌸🌸

🌼 We Stand United With the Endo Warriors West Lothian 🎗️🎗️🎗️🎗️🎗️🎗️🎗️🎗️🎗️🎗️🎗️🎗️

Today we stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the incredible Endo Warriors West Lothian to raise urgent awareness of endometriosis and the ongoing medical misogyny that so many women still face within healthcare.

💛 Endometriosis affects 1 in 10 women
💛 On average, women wait 8 years for a diagnosis
💛 Many are dismissed, minimised or told their pain is “normal”
💛 Endometriosis can be as painful as a heart attack — yet women are still sent home without answers

This is why we must keep speaking up.
This is why we won’t stop.
This is why unity between women matters more than ever.

⸻

🌸 Nicola’s Story

Nicola spent years being dismissed, unheard, and let down by a system that should have protected her. Her pain was minimised, her symptoms overlooked, and her voice ignored.
Her story fuels our mission and our fight. No woman should go through what she went through.
We honour Nicola by standing up for every woman who has been told “it’s just period pain,” “it’s anxiety,” or “just get on with it.”

⸻

💛 Our Petitions

Together we are demanding change.

📌 Nicola’s Petition:
👉 End Medical Misogyny in Women’s Health Care
👇👇👇
https://shorturl.at/CEHfa

📌 Endo Warriors Petition:
Started by Candice — an incredible woman who has endured years of chronic pain and 16 operations. Her bravery and advocacy are creating real change.
👇👇👇👇
https://shorturl.at/5ArqR

✊ Women supporting women.
✊ Standing together against medical dismissal.
✊ Fighting for better care, better training, and better outcomes for every woman.

If you believe women deserve to be heard, believed, and treated with dignity — please sign and share both petitions.
Change won’t happen unless we make it happen. 💛🌼

11/12/2025

🌼 We Stand United With the Endo Warriors West Lothian 🎗️🎗️🎗️🎗️🎗️🎗️🎗️🎗️🎗️🎗️🎗️🎗️

Today we stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the incredible Endo Warriors West Lothian to raise urgent awareness of endometriosis and the ongoing medical misogyny that so many women still face within healthcare.

💛 Endometriosis affects 1 in 10 women
💛 On average, women wait 8 years for a diagnosis
💛 Many are dismissed, minimised or told their pain is “normal”
💛 Endometriosis can be as painful as a heart attack — yet women are still sent home without answers

This is why we must keep speaking up.
This is why we won’t stop.
This is why unity between women matters more than ever.

⸻

🌸 Nicola’s Story

Nicola spent years being dismissed, unheard, and let down by a system that should have protected her. Her pain was minimised, her symptoms overlooked, and her voice ignored.
Her story fuels our mission and our fight. No woman should go through what she went through.
We honour Nicola by standing up for every woman who has been told “it’s just period pain,” “it’s anxiety,” or “just get on with it.”

⸻

💛 Our Petitions

Together we are demanding change.

📌 Nicola’s Petition:
👉 End Medical Misogyny in Women’s Health Care
👇👇👇
https://shorturl.at/CEHfa

📌 Endo Warriors Petition:
Started by Candice — an incredible woman who has endured years of chronic pain and 16 operations. Her bravery and advocacy are creating real change.
👇👇👇👇
https://shorturl.at/5ArqR

✊ Women supporting women.
✊ Standing together against medical dismissal.
✊ Fighting for better care, better training, and better outcomes for every woman.

If you believe women deserve to be heard, believed, and treated with dignity — please sign and share both petitions.
Change won’t happen unless we make it happen. 💛🌼